The fact that no one ever debates what the definition of a “man” is says it all about the recent UK Supreme Court judgement.

Transphobia is deeply rooted in misogyny.

It’s the idea that women should look a certain way, based on sexist ideas of female sexuality through the male gaze, and should act a certain way, based on a patriarchal belief system.

It’s the idea women are only good for procreation and satisfying men sexually.

That’s why we never hear about trans men.

#TransRights

How old am I?

I'm so old I remember when Google search provided more value than surveillance advertising.

I'm so old I remember when an operating system was not considered an advertising platform.

I'm so old I remember when "Artificial Intelligence" was a serious enquiry filled with brilliant people, and not a scam machine populated by sleazebags.

I'm so old I remember when "user" didn't mean "product".

I'm so old I remember when "corporation" didn't mean "person".

#foxesInLove #comic

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The United States' three branches of government

1. The guy who does whatever he wants
2. The people too scared to stop him
3. The courts he openly ignores

#politics #government #FascistAmeriKKKa #Fascism #Nazis #Authoritarianism

#PennedPossibilities 645. What was the most unexpected challenge you encountered while writing your WIP?

I didn't expect large parts of the Western world to fall to fascism while I was writing a series about the West falling to fascism, though, in retrospect, I should have seen that coming.

Important info from the Aussie embassy in Germany re #AusVotes. In person voting happening in both Frankfurt and Berlin, #DemocracySausage in Berlin only.

#MigrantLife

Hive mind: any suggestions?

On my Macbook Air, Safari has been behaving weirdly when I plug in my external monitor. Many (but not all?) of the Safari windows get rendered full-window (even though they weren't when I was only on the laptop, nor before I disconnected and reconnected).

I had suspected a bug with BetterSnapTool, which I was using, but I've deleted that and rebooted several times since.

I *think* this may have started happening at the last Mac OS update.

It's not terrible, just really really annoying. So far web searching hasn't yielded any hints. Any thoughts?

#mac #macOS

We are not lawyers, nor our alter egos play as such on the Internet. Ergo in the face of legal challenges we are only rusticos.

If you feel ad idem and want to lend a hand, or head, to #FDroid pro bono and bona fide, you can help in our ongoing efforts ad infinitum.

Quaeritur right here: f-droid.org/2025/04/16/strengt…

#Mozilla #EFF #SFLC #OpenTechFund

Strengthening FOSS Legal Resilience | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

As part of the FOSS Sustainability grant awarded to F-Droid by the OpenTechnology Fund(OTF)earlier this year, we’ve taken on the task of developing clear,com...

^f-droid.org

Remember, income disparity in the US was at its LOWEST when unions were at their STRONGEST!

Want to Save Democracy? Organize a Union in Your Workplace.
thenation.com/article/activism…

#Labor #Democracy #UnionStrong #USPol #NoRepublicansEverAgain

Want to Save Democracy? Organize a Union in Your Workplace. | The Nation

Authoritarian regimes make crushing unions a top priority for a reason: Strong, independent unions are the best safeguard against tyranny.

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"DOGE went weeks w/o updating its webpage. Just after midnight on Tues -removed nearly a $Bs worth of previously claimed “savings.”
--M Alfred

"DOGE website -only public accounting of Musk & Trump’s attempts to reduce fed govt spending: riddled with errors -incl revisions: suggest: previously overstating its savings by 100s of $Ms.

On Tues alone -removed ~$962M in previously claimed cuts & altered 100s of others to boost indiv items’ purported “savings” values.

#USPol notus.org/policy/doge-claimed-…

Nearly a Billion Dollars in DOGE ‘Savings’ Disappeared Overnight

In a late-night update to its webpage, DOGE removed hundreds of previously claimed cuts and altered scores of others to boost the items’ claimed “savings” values.

^{Mark Alfred (NOTUS)}